The viewing figures of Saturday, December 11, 2021 (SHOE) – Dave Roelvink cheated in the premiere episode of The Big Balance, a kind of tightrope walk with the Stars. “I admit.”
One of the first assignments in the Dutch celebrity tightrope walk show The Big Balance was quite scary: the candidates were led blindfolded to the top floor of the A’DAM Tower, where they were given VR glasses. They were also given a harness, which made it look like they were going to make a big jump.
“Stick it up your ass!”
Because of those VR glasses it looked like that: the celebrities imagined themselves on a wooden plank, hundreds of meters above the abyss. They were told to jump, but what they didn’t know is that in reality they wouldn’t make a fall at all. There was considerable fear among the candidates, but they all ‘jumped’ nonetheless.
Dave Roelvink had the most trouble with it. “No, you stick those points up your ass. You can give me something with your points!”, he initially grumbled to presenter Hélène Hendriks.
Dave is cheating
He finally gave in, but why? Dave turned out to be secretly looking under his VR glasses. “I cheated and I admitted it honestly. I couldn’t, so I looked under those glasses and then you see that floor. Then you feel back on earth, so to speak,” said the reality star in front of the camera.
It yielded Dave points deduction, in front of 523,000 viewers of SBS 6. And with this score, The Big Balance is off to a good start for the standards of that channel. Compared to the ratings hit Mindf*ck and the reasonably viewed Chantals Pajama Party, SBS 6 still manages to scrape together more than 9 percent market share.
Record for Even Till Here
Even Tot Hier remains the big winner of Saturday evening with more than 2.1 million viewers (36 percent market share) on NPO 1. This is a new viewing figure record: last week just over 2 million people watched. Prior to Even Tot Hier, Mindf*ck managed to get a nice 1.7 million viewers (29 percent).
The silver is for RTL 4: Chantals Pajama Party attracted 768,000 viewers (13 percent) and Een tegen 50 subsequently attracted 825,000 viewers (15 percent). This is followed by NPO 2’s Sterren op het Doek with 694,000 viewers (12 percent).
SBS 6 out of four
SBS 6 was thus the number four on prime time. Immediately after the tightrope walk, the Top 4000 Quiz attracted slightly more viewers, namely 532,000 (9 percent).
Important daily titles that did not make the top 15 included Hart van Nederland (427,000) and Shownieuws (475,000).
Top six
The six least scoring top ten stations (on average) scored as follows in prime time:
- NPO 3 – Skating WB: 396,000,
- Net5 – NCIS: 334,000,
- Veronica – Eraser: 200.000,
- RTL 8 – A Gift for Christmas: 182.000,
- RTL 5 – Police 24/7: 89,000,
- RTL 7 – Term Life: 82.000.
NPO 1 night market leader
NPO 1 was the night market leader with a 29 percent market share, RTL 4 took silver with 15 percent and SBS 6 took bronze with 10 percent.
Top 15 |
Market Shares (18-24h, 6+) |
|---|---|
| 01. News 20:00 (NPO1) 2.149.000 | 01. NPO1 / 29.1% |
| 02. Until here (NPO1) 2.116.000 | 02. RTL4 / 14.5% |
| 03. Mindf * ck (NPO1) 1,726,000 | 03. SBS6 / 10.2% |
| 04. News 18:00 (NPO1) 1.222.000 | 04. NPO2 / 7.2% |
| 05. Half past seven news (RTL4) 1,163,000 | 05. NPO3 / 5.2% |
| 06. Cash (NPO1) 1,092,000 | 06. NET5 / 3.9% |
| 07. Studio Sport Eredivisie (NPO1) 1,078,000 | 07. RTL8 / 2.8% |
| 08. EenVandaag (NPO1) 1,058,000 | 08. Vero / 2.6% |
| 09. Autosport F1 GP Are KW (ZIggo) 961.000 | 09. RTL5 / 2.5% |
| 10. Autosport F1 GP NB (Ziggo) 876,000 | 10. RTL7 / 1.9% |
| 11. One against 50 (RTL4) 825,000 | 11. Ziggo / 1.4% |
| 12. Chantals Pyjama Party (RTL4) 768.000 | 12. ESPN2 / 1.3% |
| 13. RTL Boulevard (RTL4) 727,000 | 13. ESPN / 1.2% |
| 14. Stars on the canvas (NPO2) 694,000 | 14. BBC / 1.1% |
| 15. Edition NL (RTL4) 606.000 | 15. SBS9 / 1.0% |
Market shares per channel group (18-24h, 6+) |
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| 01. Public Broadcasting 41.5% |
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| 02. RTL Netherlands 22.7% | |
| 03. Mole TV 17.7% |
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